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Inventory of Practice
The Inventory of Practices for Promoting Social-Emotional Competence is designed to be used by individuals and/or teams to identify training needs and plan a course of action to address those needs.
Module 1: Relationships and Environment
Building Relationships
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All About My Child
This document is designed to be used to gather information about the children in your classrooms. It will provide you with important information to help you build a relationship with each and every child and family. Below are some ideas for how to use the child information sheet.
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Moving from Praise to Acknowledgment
When a child has done something impressive, instead of saying, “Good job,” try one of the following…
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PDA Sentence Strips
A PDA a day can make a child’s day. You can put the PDA strip in the child’s cubby or in the mailbox at the end of the day.
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Re-Connecting and Building Relationships with Infants
Here are some tips and strategies to reconnect and build relationships with infants as they return to your program.
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Some Starters for Giving Positive Feedback and Encouragement
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Supportive Environments
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Behavior Expectation Matrix
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Families: Let’s Talk Expectations!
We are developing expectations for the classroom. Expectations are what we want all children and adults to do. One of the ways we develop expectations are thinking of the behaviors we value. Think of your child at home and in the community. What are the behaviors that are most important to you and your family?
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Rebuilding the Pyramid: Reconnecting After a Break
After a long break, it’s likely children and adults may forget some of the routines that make the school day go smoothly. To help with the transition of your classroom community back to school after an extended break, it may be important to re-teach or remind children of schedules, expectations, and routines.
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Sample Expectations Book – Great Expectations
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Scripted Story: Cleaning Up My Toys
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Scripted Story: I Brush My Teeth
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Scripted Story: I Go to Preschool
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Scripted Story: What Do We Do In Circle?
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Scripted Story: When Our Teacher is Away, We Can Still Learn and Play
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Stop and Go Activity
When in large group the teacher will pick a scenario card and talk about the action depicted on the card with the children. Then the teacher will ask children to show the GO sign if this action represents one of the classroom’s expectations. If the action does not represent one of the classes’ expectations, the children will show the STOP
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Visual Supports for Routines, Schedules, and Transitions
Visual schedules help children know what their day will look like by letting them know when activities or routines will happen. These visual cards will make this process easy!
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What is a prompt?
Prompts are instructions, gestures, demonstrations, touches, or other things we can do to increase the likelihood that children will respond correctly. Prompting helps children complete tasks that might otherwise be too difficult, or contain multiple or complex steps.
Module 2: Teaching Social-Emotional Strategies
Friendship Skills
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Embedding Friendship Opportunities
Use this schedule template to assist with planning opportunities for children to engage in social interaction.
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Implementing Stay-Play-Talk in Early Childhood Classrooms
Peer-mediated interventions typically involve adults training peer buddies to implement interventions with target children who have social delays.
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Peer Mediated Skills
Peer Mediated Strategies are specific behaviors to teach in large group that lead to friendship skills.
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Scripted Stories for Social Situations Tip Sheet
Scripted stories for social situations help children understand social interactions, situations, expectations, social cues, the script of unfamiliar activities, and/or social rules.
Emotional Literacy
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Feeling Faces
The Feeling Faces assist children with understanding their feelings and the feelings of others. It is important to teach children words to use to express feelings in replace of the use of challenging behavior. The feeling faces that follow can be used in a variety of ways to help children learn social emotional skills around use of emotional literacy and
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Scripted Story: I Can Feel Different Feelings
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Scripted Story: Some Days are Different!
Managing Strong Emotions
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Help Us Calm Down: Strategies for Children
Try these strategies with your child! The more you use a calming strategy and practice the strategy with your child, the more likely they are to use the strategy when experiencing anger, stress, sadness, or frustration.
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Relaxation Thermometer
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Scripted Story: I Can Get Calm
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Scripted Story: When I am at school and I need help to calm down, what can I do?
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Self-Care for Teachers
Regulating your responses when children’s behaviors push your buttons.
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Self-Regulation Skills: Breathing Strategies
Self-Regulation is the ability to recognize and manage your emotions and behaviors in different settings and activities.
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Sonia Snail Takes Time to Tuck and Think
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Tucker Turtle Takes Time to Tuck and Think
Problem-Solving & Conflict Resolution
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Alternative Solution Kit
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Scripted Story: When I Need Space
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Solution Kit: Classroom Edition
An important part of kindergarten readiness is having strong social-emotional skills. This includes knowing how to solve common social problems. Our classroom uses a tool called the Solution Kit that helps teach children to recognize a situation as a problem and then try different solutions. These visuals are available in our room as reminders.
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Tiered Plan of Action
Tools & Techniques for Addressing Challenging Behavior.
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